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Lunar Cycles and Trading by J. O Katz, Ph.D.

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Lunar Cycles and Trading by J. O Katz, Ph.D.
This month, this Contributing Writer looks at using lunar cycles as the basis of a trading system.
In my previous two articles, I focused on cycles -- rhythmic oscillations that occur with a certain periodicity or frequency. Initially, I explored seasonal
cycles, which I defined as recurrent phenomena consistently connected to the calendar, and found that fairly good predictions could be made on the basis of historical market behaviors linked to specific dates as well as times of the year. Then I attempted to find cycles that, unlike seasonal infl...